Re: [TCLCORE] TIP#239 Try/Catch/Finally syntax

[Twylite <tw...@cr...>]

Hi,
> Perhaps it's just me that I envision hierachies of error classes.
>
> Not being able to catch  ARITH and all subclasses like a "ARITH MATRIX"
> with the same clause - just because the latter has list-meta-syntax that
> needs to be taken care of - feels just wrong to me.
>   
The errorCode list is meant to be a hierarchy of error classes.  If you 
specify the first element as "ARITH MATRIX" then it isn't a subclass of 
ARITH (which would be [list "ARITH" "MATRIX"]).
> Otherwise we'd have to discourage use of spaces and all other
> list-special characters in user defined errorcodes.
>   
That's almost certainly not a bad idea.

Regards,
Twylite